Re: xsl:template/@priority

You can do this in 3.0 with shadow attributes: 

_priority="{1 * $priority-weight}"

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 1 Dec 2020, at 15:01, Joel Kalvesmaki <kalvesmaki@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In 4.0 would it be a good idea to allow xsl:template/@priority to be constructable based on, say, static parameters? 
> 
> The motivation here are cases where I have wanted to adjust via parameters how template priorities are weighted. One could argue that @use-when is always available. But @priority is bound to gradated criteria, not merely true or false. 
> 
> An example use case: 
> <xsl:param name="priority-weight" as="xs:integer" select="-1" static="yes" />
> <xsl:template ... priority = "{1 * $priority-weight}"/>
> 
> Authors then could specify rather nuance conditions for priorities.
> 
> I think this would be chaos if exposed to dynamic values. But static ones?
> 
> Again, just an idea.
> 
> jk
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> Joel Kalvesmaki
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